Everything about Potidaea totally explained
Potidaea (
Greek: Ποτίδαια
Potidaia, modern transliteration:
Potidea) was a
colony founded by the
Corinthians around
600 BCE in the narrowest point in
Pallene (now Kassandra) in the western point of
Chalcidice in what was known as
Thrace. Potidaea maintained trade with
Macedonia.
While besieged by the
Persians in 479 BC, the town was saved by the earliest recorded tsunami in history.
Herodotus reports how the Persians attackers who tried to exploit an unusual retreat of the water were suddenly surprised by "a great flood-tide, higher, as the people of the place say, than any one of the many that had been before".
During the
Delian League conflicts occurred between
Athens and
Corinth. However, the Corinthians sent a supreme magistrate each year. Potidaea was inevitably involved in all of the conflicts between Athens and Corinth.
The people revolted against the Athenians in
432 BCE, but it was besieged during the
Peloponnesian War and taken in the
Battle of Potidaea in
430 BCE. The Athenians preserved the city until
404 BCE, when it was passed into
Chalcidice.
The Athenians retook the city in
363 BCE, but in
356 BCE Potidaea fell into the hands of
Philip II of Macedon. Potidaea was destroyed and her territory handed to the
Olynthians.
Cassander built a city in the same site and was named
Cassandreia.
The modern settlement of
Nea_Potidea is near this ancient site.
Trivia
- Gabrielle, a fictional character in was born in Potidaea.
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